Chen, Hui; Lü, Tianquan; Cui, Lian; Cao, Wenwu - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 8, pp. 1963-1971
By taking into account surface transition layers (STL), the dielectric properties of ferroelectric thin films described by the transverse Ising model are discussed in the framework of the mean-field approximation. Functions of the intra-layer and inter-layer couplings are introduced to...